TY - BOOK ID - 77886380 TI - Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada AU - King, Clarence AU - Farquhar, Francis P PY - 1997 SN - 0585274320 9780585274324 0803277830 9780803277830 9783736419568 3736419562 PB - Lincoln University of Nebraska Press DB - UniCat KW - Mountaineering KW - United States Local History KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - History & Archaeology KW - Climbing mountains KW - Mountain climbing KW - Hiking KW - Outdoor life KW - King, Clarence, KW - Todd, James, KW - Journeys KW - Travel KW - Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) KW - Sierra Nevada Mountains (Calif. and Nev.) KW - Sierra Nevada Range (Calif. and Nev.) KW - Sierras (Calif. and Nev.) KW - Description and travel. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77886380 AB - A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is still exciting reading. It describes the perils and pleasures experienced by Clarence King (1842-1901) while conducting the first geological survey of California in the 1860s. His language was equal to the marvels he found, and here with unfading brilliance are his accounts of scaling such mountains as Tyndall, Shasta, and Whitney. The chapters on the Yosemite Valley and surrounding High Sierras were written while he was surveying the boundaries of a newly designated national park. There are also delightful vignettes of western characters, including a Sierra artist and a family of Pike County hog farmers. King, who in 1879 became the first director of the United States Geological Survey, will always be remembered for Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, which was praised by Wallace Stegner, Van Wyck Brooks, and Henry Seidel Canby as a watermark of frontier literature. ER -